Respuesta :

Generally in Brazil, the biggest factor influencing racial categorization is directly linked to economic rather than physical characteristics. Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery in 1888, the country still has a strong racial problem, as most black people live in slums and suburbs. Despite being a racially mixed country, black people are still marginalized.

Brazilians consider the racial categorization by affluence. Affluence is a situation and condition of owning more wealth than others.

EXPLANATION:

The reason why the affluence being in the racial categorization is because of the abolition of slavery. It seems that there is no easy clarification for why slaves were not occupied as wage labor on the abolition of slavery. One chance is the influence of race-based notions from the second half of the 1800s and 1900s, which were according to white superiority theories.  

Conversely, Brazilian legal entities had been employing slave labor for centuries, without complaint about the quality of this labor force, and no significant changes in the Brazilian economy or work progressions could validate such unexpected preoccupation with the "race" of workers.

There may be a correlation between wealth and education that Brazilians from upper classes with darker phenotypes see themselves and are seen by others in lighter categories, either affluence that influences their perception with others, but does not influence, or at least influence their self-perception, or that affluence actually influences their self-perception in the opposite mode: it is the lower classes who are more vulnerable to self-whitening. It contributes to display that self-classification in the census is more objective than alter-classification; but most prominently, it presents that economic differences between white people and non-whites people are effectively there.  

It is essential to note that the alter-classification in the survey was made by a group of students, namely typically middle-class people. There are significant differences in social position regarding "race". These differences include income, housing, education, etc.

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KEYWORDS : racial categorization, Brazil, racial identity, affluence

Subject  : Social Studies

Class  : 10-12

Sub-Chapter : Racial Categorization in Brazil